Contemporary Southern Gothic meets weird horror in this new novelette from Priscilla Bettis.Professor Claire Davenport yearns to be a mother. After suffering four miscarriages, the university microbiologist tries and fails to qualify as an adoptive mother. Then Claire’s husband leaves.Alone and emotionally wounded, Claire takes a summer sabbatical from her microbiology classes and escapes to rural Virginia to heal. There, she meets local farmers with strange agricultural practices.Claire moves into the historic manor house she rented for the summer, and an abandoned child greets her. Is the child real, an answer to her prayers? Or is he a figment of her tormented emotions? Perhaps the tight-knit locals are playing a trick on the science lady from the city.Whatever the boy’s origin, Claire is determined to find the truth, but the truth may be bloody.
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- Release Date 01/10/2022
- Author Priscilla Bettis
- Language English
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